After the CSD attack, politicians from the AfD and the CDU/CSU revived calls concerning citizenship and “remigration.”

Concrete statements by politicians from the AfD, CDU and CSU show that the attack was used as an occasion to call for “remigration,” changes to the principle of birthright citizenship, and the possible revocation of German citizenship for dual nationals. CORRECTIV describes this approach as political instrumentalization.

This assessment is supported by specific posts and expert opinions, but remains an editorial interpretation. The claim that AfD members of the Bundestag published “hundreds of posts” about the attack within a few days cannot be independently verified.

The article does not provide an exact figure, its search methodology, the accounts examined, or rules for counting duplicate posts. An earlier CORRECTIV analysis recorded 1,122 posts between January 2024 and September 2025, but counted identical posts published on multiple platforms separately.

Almost half of these posts came from just 15 members of the Bundestag. The spikes visible in that analysis after attacks partly coincide with election campaign periods.

Without daily raw data and statistical controls for election campaign effects, it cannot be determined whether the attacks themselves were responsible for the higher number of posts. Several of the article’s legal claims are substantiated.

The Federal Administrative Court found Sellner’s concept to be hostile to the constitutional order insofar as German citizens with a migration background are treated as legally inferior to other Germans. By contrast, statements that the AfD’s stated distinction is merely a pretext, that Kneller “effectively” wants to abolish the principle of birthright citizenship, or that his demand is based on National Socialist ideology are editorial conclusions and not directly proven facts.